Leadership

South African democracy is limited not because its governing elite has changed too much but because it has been unwilling or unable...

Zambia’s presidential election was expected to be a tight two-horse race between President Edgar Lungu and perennial opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema. But...

As part of DiA's popular #BookClub feature, we invited Rebecca Tapscott to discuss her brilliant new book, Arbitrary States, with Gerald Bareebe....

Given the imperial like constitutional powers endowed to the President of Tanzania, it is easy to assume that one person – the...

Kenya’s recently concluded Kiambaa by-election on 15 July was the latest in a series of electoral and legal victories for the so-called...

On 12 April 1973 a new baby democracy was stillborn by the banning of political parties and the imposition of the “Tikhundla”...

Equatorial Guinea is a small African state located on the central west coast of the continent where democracy has yet to arrive....

The U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous Cold War ‘Domino Theory’ speech during a news conference on 7 April 1954....

DiA's own Professor Nic Cheeseman and Sishuwa Sishuwa have written a political obituary of Zambia's "founding father" and first president Kenneth Kaunda,...

At a time when authoritarian leaders across Africa are looking to scrap the two term limits imposed by their respective constitutions, the...